OMB Budget Blueprint Excerpt for NASA “Provides $1.8 billion for a focused, balanced Earth science portfolio that supports the priorities of the science and applications communities, a savings of $102 […]
DSCOVR
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DSCOVR EPIC Images Earth
Deep Space Climate Observatory Captures EPIC Earth Image “A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite has returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth […]
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DSCOVR/Triana/GoreSat Launched
DSCOVR Launched (with video) “The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, or DSCOVR, lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force […]
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Al Gore's Cheap Satellite is Not Cheap
Assessment of the Triana Mission, G-99-013, Final Report, 10 September 1999, NASA OIG “When the Triana mission was announced in March 1998, NASA hoped to keep the project’s cost close […]
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Goresat Launch Preparations Continue
NASA Television will provide live coverage of a news briefing on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission “NASA Television will provide live coverage of a news briefing on the […]
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Good Thing We Waited 14 Years to Launch Goresat
Al Gore’s dream spacecraft gears up for launch, Nature “For Jay Herman, an atmospheric scientist at Goddard and EPIC instrument scientist, the delay has a silver lining: the refurbishment revealed […]
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Goresat Gets Closer To Launch
DSCOVR Mission Passes Major Milestones “NOAA will manage the DSCOVR mission, giving advanced warning of approaching solar storms. NASA, funded by NOAA, refurbished the DSCOVR satellite and instruments, which were […]
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GoreSat Is Back
Once-derided climate-change satellite may launch with new goal “An Earth observation satellite conceived by former Vice President Al Gore — but banished to a Maryland warehouse by foes of climate […]